delpak-dave

Hello there, my name is David, I am not sure if I have posted in the right area of this site so if not can someone please let me know, I have been watching this site for a short time and I am learning more about my Cancer in those few days than any of my treating Doctors have told me, some of the treatments and terms I have seen on this site have never been mentioned to me and to be honest this has frightened me, not through any fault of this site but rather the thought that I may have wasted a load of time traveling the path that I have to date.

I am 51 years old, I was diagnosed on 14th March 2014 with Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (I am sorry if I have spelled this incorrectly), my diagnosis only came after my seeing a number of different Doctors over at least a period of 28 months of being told there was nothing wrong with me and I just knew that something just was not right and so one night I phoned emergency services and was taken by Ambulance to the local Hospital and basically refused to leave for 3 days.
While in Hospital I was able to watch a bit of TV and what I can only believe to be a sign, I watch 4 different Medical shows over those three days and from the symptoms that patients were describing on the TV shows I had them all but no pain other than one time that I could recall over that 28 months of seeing Doctors and when I told the Doctors of what I had watched I was told that they felt that I was suffering from Depression (and now I wish they had been correct) they then agreed to at least do a CT scan and then my journey began.

I will stop for the moment, because I have not had anyone to talk to about this and now I have found your site I fear that I may type out a novel and I do not want to sound like I am crying victim but I really could use as much information as possible as it is becoming very evident that not a lot of experience with this Cancer is available in my location yet I have no intention of just laying down and plan to fight this as much as possible.

I would love to know (if allowed) to know if there are any other members here in Australia? but not limited to that and would share with anyone anywhere.

I am sorry for the drawn out post, I do appreciate the time anyone may take reading my post.

My Kindest Regards:

DAVID L